Staff
- Sara Cortez
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(916) 319-8348
Special Education, Preschool, Child Nutrition, and Facilities - Kenneth Kapphahn
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(916) 319-8339
Proposition 98, School District Budgets, School Transportation - Lisa Qing
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(916) 319-8306
California Community Colleges - Michael Alferes
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(916) 319-8338
Local Control Funding Formula, Charter Schools, Alternative Schools, High School Career Technical Education - Natalie Gonzalez
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(916) 319-8320
California State University, Student Financial Aid - Dylan Hawksworth-Lutzow
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(916) 319-8308
Child Care, Expanded Learning, Teachers, and Education Technology - Edgar Cabral
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(916) 319-8343
Deputy Legislative Analyst: K-12 Education - Jennifer Pacella
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(916) 319-8332
Deputy Legislative Analyst: Higher Education - Florence Bouvet
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(916) 319-8310
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Economic Impact Aid
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May 2, 2006 - Presented to the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance.
Modernizing the Functions Of the Commission on Teacher Credentialing
April 27, 2006 - State law establishes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) and entrusts it with accrediting teacher preparation programs, credentialing teachers, and monitoring teacher conduct. In this report, we describe each of these three teacher-quality functions, identify related shortcomings, and propose various recommendations for overcoming them. The recommendations seek to simplify existing teacher-quality processes, reduce redundancies, strengthen accountability, and foster greater coherence among education reforms. Taken as a package, these recommendations would improve how the state ensures teacher quality and eliminate CTC.
Williams Legislation: Facilities Emergency Repair Program
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April 18, 2006 - Presented to the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No.2 On Education Finance.
Migrant Education Program
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April 18, 2006 - Presented to the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance.
Funding Enrollment Growth at UC and CSU
March 28, 2006 - Year-to-year changes in the state’s higher education costs are greatly influenced by changes in student enrollment levels. Each year as part of the annual budget process, the Legislature must determine (1) how many additional students will enroll at the University of California and the California State University and (2) how much it will cost to serve those additional students. This report reviews factors that influence enrollment growth and the current methodology of calculating the “marginal cost” of serving additional students. Specifically, for 2006-07, we recommend, first, funding 2 percent enrollment growth at UC and CSU and second, revising the current methodology for calculating the marginal cost of enrolling an additional student, in order to more accurately budget for these expenses.
Overview of the Governor's 2006-07 Budget Proposal
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March 15, 2006 - Presented to Mervyn Dymally, Chair of the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance.
Proposition 82 Overview
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March 14, 2006 - Presented to the Senate Education Committee, Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee, Assembly Education Committee, and Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee.
Revenue Limit Overview
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March 14, 2006 - Presented to the Assembly Budget Committee Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance.
Review of the 2006-07 Budget
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March 14, 2006 - Presented to the Assembly Budget Committee Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance.
K-12 Mandates
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March 14, 2006 - Presented to the Assembly Budget Committee Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance.
Proposition 98 Overview
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March 14, 2006 - Presented to the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance.
Reforming the Governance Structure of the California Student Aid Commission and EdFund.
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March 9, 2006 - Presented to the Joint Assembly and Senate Education Committee.
K-12 Education Issues In the 2006-07 Budget
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February 23, 2006 - We highlight the major K-12 recommendations in our Analysis of the 2006-07 Budget Bill.
K-12 Facilities Emergency Repair Program
February 23, 2006 - The current structure of the Emergency Repair Program (ERP) makes it difficult for districts to apply for funds and provides incentives for districts to avoid addressing facility problems until they become real emergencies. We recommend the Legislature enact legislation to grant the ERP funds directly to districts with low performing schools to address facility needs identified by their facilities needs assessments, and maintain $50 million at the state level to provide districts with loans for pressing emergency repair needs.
After School Programs and Proposition 49
February 23, 2006 - As approved by voters in 2002, Proposition 49 requires the state to increase funding for the After School Education and Safety (ASES) program beginning in 2006-07. We continue to recommend the Legislature enact legislation placing before the voters a repeal of Proposition 49 because (1) it triggers an autopilot augmentation even though the state is facing a structural budget gap of billions of dollars, (2) the additional spending on after school programs is a lower budget priority than protecting districts’ base education program, and (3) existing state and federal after school funds are going unused.